Saturday, August 20, 2011

Islamabad - Naming natural calamities after women is not common in Pakistan but attaching such disasters to moral degradation surrounding women is a dominant way of thinking. This is especially true in some areas hit by floods last year where women claim to know exactly why the disaster struck. “It was destined to happen because Allah was angry over a festival organised in Kalam,” most women in upper Swat unanimously say. Naseema Bibi, lost her 17-year-old son in the family